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It’s almost certainly worth trying if your apps would benefit from some marginal performance improvements in return for a little experimentation time.</p> <p class="name" style="color: #5a5a5a; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2em;">Zach Musgrave (DoltHub) </p> </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="el-item item " ok style="border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 5px;"><tr><td style="font-family: -apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.48em; border-collapse: collapse; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px;"> <p class="desc" style="color: #222; margin-top: 0.8em; margin-bottom: 0;"><span style="font-weight: 600; font-size: 1.2em !important; color: #000;" class="mainlink"><a target="_blank" href="https://andrewwphillips.github.io/blog/pgo.html" title="andrewwphillips.github.io" style="text-decoration: none; color: #0099b4; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; border-bottom-color: #ddd !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; font-size: 1.05em;">Getting the Best from Profile Guided Optimization</a></span> — Related to the above item, PGO was a nifty addition to Go 1.21 (first previewed in 1.20) but there are some things worth appreciating if you want to get the most out of it.</p> <p class="name" style="color: #5a5a5a; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2em;">Andrew Phillips </p> </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="el-item item " ok style="border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 5px;"><tr><td style="font-family: -apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.48em; border-collapse: collapse; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px;"> <a target="_blank" target="_blank" href="https://www.crunchydata.com/products/crunchy-bridge?utm_source=cpgo-prim-0206" style="text-decoration: none; color: #0099b4; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; border-bottom-color: #ddd !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important;"><img src="https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/ccc372d1.png" width="110" height="110" style="padding-top: 12px; padding-left: 12px; outline: none; height: auto; text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%; line-height: 100%; border-top-width: 0; border-right-width: 0; border-bottom-width: 0; border-left-width: 0;" align="right" alt="" class="som"></a> <p class="desc" style="color: #222; margin-top: 0.8em; margin-bottom: 0;"><span style="font-weight: 600; font-size: 1.2em !important; color: #000;" class="mainlink"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.crunchydata.com/products/crunchy-bridge?utm_source=cpgo-prim-0206" title="www.crunchydata.com" style="text-decoration: none; color: #0099b4; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; border-bottom-color: #ddd !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; font-size: 1.05em;">❤️ Postgres</a></span> — You need a database provider that loves Postgres as much as you do. 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He covered the bits of Go he felt got things right, what got left out, and some qualms over how Go’s mascot is used (the original was created by Rob’s wife, <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9e_French" style="text-decoration: none; color: #0099b4; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; border-bottom-color: #ddd !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important;">Renée French</a>).</p> <p class="name" style="color: #5a5a5a; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2em;">David Cassel (The New Stack) </p> </td></tr></table>  <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="content el-content blue" style="color: #222; border-collapse: collapse;" ok><tr><td style="font-family: -apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.48em; border-collapse: collapse; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px;"><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0.8em; background-color: #f0f9ff; line-height: 1.4em; font-size: 0.9em; padding-top: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px;">💡 There's more detail in <a target="_blank" href="https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2024/01/what-we-got-right-what-we-got-wrong.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: #0099b4; font-weight: 600;">Rob's own writeup of his talk</a>, which we featured a few issues ago.</p></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="content el-md releases" style="border-collapse: collapse;" ok><tr><td style="font-family: -apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.48em; border-collapse: collapse; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px;"> <p style="margin-top: 0.8em; margin-bottom: 0.8em;"><em>QUICK BITS:</em></p> <ul style="padding-left: 0; margin-left: 18px; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: inside;"> <li style="color: #222; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px !important;"> <p style="margin-top: 0.8em; margin-bottom: 0.8em;">🚨 The latest <a target="_blank" href="https://google.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_083SVAUCji98YeO?s=b" style="text-decoration: none; color: #0099b4; font-weight: 600; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: #ddd; border-bottom-style: solid;">official Go developer survey</a> is open for just five more days – take it now to have your say.</p> </li> <li style="color: #222; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px !important;"> <p style="margin-top: 0.8em; margin-bottom: 0.8em;">📅 The <a target="_blank" href="https://sessionize.com/gophercon-2024/" style="text-decoration: none; color: #0099b4; font-weight: 600; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: #ddd; border-bottom-style: solid;">GopherCon 2024 CFP</a> is open until February 26.</p> </li> <li style="color: #222; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px !important;"> <p style="margin-top: 0.8em; margin-bottom: 0.8em;">🔐 Filippo Valsorda, cryptography expert and former Go team member, shares <a target="_blank" href="https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/mlkem768/" style="text-decoration: none; color: #0099b4; font-weight: 600; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: #ddd; border-bottom-style: solid;">the details behind creating a post-quantum cryptography library for Go</a> called <code>mlkem768</code>.</p> </li> <li style="color: #222; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px !important;"> <p style="margin-top: 0.8em; margin-bottom: 0.8em;">🎧 Dominic St-Pierre's <a target="_blank" href="https://gopodcast.dev/" style="text-decoration: none; color: #0099b4; font-weight: 600; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: #ddd; border-bottom-style: solid;">go podcast()</a> has been <em>Go-</em>ing for a year now, and he's decided to extend its short, personal format by bringing guests on, as in this week's episode: <a target="_blank" href="https://gopodcast.dev/episodes/027-debugging-in-go-with-matt-boyle" style="text-decoration: none; color: #0099b4; font-weight: 600; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: #ddd; border-bottom-style: solid;">▶️ Debugging in Go with Matt Boyle.</a></p> </li> <li style="color: #222; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px !important;"> <p style="margin-top: 0.8em; margin-bottom: 0.8em;">Elsewhere in Go podcast land, Neil S Primmer and Benji Vesterby went on <em>Go Time</em> to <a target="_blank" href="https://changelog.com/gotime/301" style="text-decoration: none; color: #0099b4; font-weight: 600; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: #ddd; border-bottom-style: solid;">▶️ talk about last year's GopherCon 'Capture the Flag' event</a>, with host Angelica Hill.</p> </li> </ul> </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="el-item item " ok style="border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 5px;"><tr><td style="font-family: -apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.48em; border-collapse: collapse; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px;"> <p class="desc" style="color: #222; margin-top: 0.8em; margin-bottom: 0;"><span style="font-weight: 600; font-size: 1.2em !important; color: #000;" class="mainlink"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.bytesizego.com/blog/history-of-dependency-management-go" title="www.bytesizego.com" style="text-decoration: none; color: #0099b4; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; border-bottom-color: #ddd !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; font-size: 1.05em;">A Brief History of Dependency Management in Go</a></span> — A quick dash through six eras of dependency management from, well, <em>nothing</em> to Go modules. If you weren’t around in the early days, you may not remember all this.</p> <p class="name" style="color: #5a5a5a; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2em;">Matt Boyle </p> </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="el-item item " ok style="border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 5px;"><tr><td style="font-family: -apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.48em; border-collapse: collapse; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px;"> <p class="desc" style="color: #222; margin-top: 0.8em; margin-bottom: 0;"><span style="font-weight: 600; font-size: 1.2em !important; color: #000;" class="mainlink"><a target="_blank" href="https://zenhorace.dev/blog/context-control-go/" title="zenhorace.dev" style="text-decoration: none; color: #0099b4; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; border-bottom-color: #ddd !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; font-size: 1.05em;">Context Control in Go</a></span> — A look at a few easy violated rules for handling contexts in Go. 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color: #0099b4; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; border-bottom-color: #ddd !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important;"><em>Gemini</em></a> refers to Google’s multimodal AI model which you can use via Google Cloud.</p> <p class="name" style="color: #5a5a5a; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2em;">Eli Bendersky </p> </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="miniitem item " ok style="border-collapse: collapse;"><tr><td style="font-family: -apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.48em; border-collapse: collapse; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px;"> <p class="desc" style="color: #5a5a5a; line-height: 1.35em !important; margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600; font-size: 1.0em; color: #000;"><a target="_blank" href="https://rednafi.com/go/type_assertion_vs_type_switches/" style="text-decoration: none; color: #0099b4; font-size: 1.0em !important; font-weight: 500; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: #ddd; border-bottom-style: solid;">Type Assertion vs Type Switches</a></span> — A little <em>aide memoire.</em> <br><span class="name" style="color: #5a5a5a; margin-top: 4px; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.3em;">Redowan Delowar</span> </p> </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="el-heading" style="background-color: none !important; text-align: left; margin-top: 15px; color: #333333; border-collapse: collapse;"><tr><td style="font-family: -apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.48em; border-collapse: collapse; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><p style="font-size: 1.6em !important; font-weight: 400 !important; text-transform: none !important; line-height: 1.4em; display: inline-block; border-bottom-width: 6px; border-bottom-color: #f4f4f4; 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border-bottom-color: #ddd !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important;">GitHub repo.</a></p> <p class="name" style="color: #5a5a5a; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2em;">James Hillyerd </p> </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="content el-md releases flat" style="border-collapse: collapse;" ok><tr><td style="font-family: -apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.48em; border-collapse: collapse; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px;"> <ul style="padding-left: 0; margin-left: 0px; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: inside;"> <li style="color: #222; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px !important;"> <p style="margin-top: 0.8em; margin-bottom: 0.8em;">🧊 <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/SolarLune/tetra3d" style="text-decoration: none; color: #0099b4; font-weight: 600; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: #ddd; border-bottom-style: solid;">Tetra3D 0.15.0</a> – 3D renderer for games built atop <a target="_blank" href="https://ebitengine.org/" style="text-decoration: none; color: #0099b4; font-weight: 600; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: #ddd; border-bottom-style: solid;">Ebitengine.</a></p> </li> <li style="color: #222; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px !important;"> <p style="margin-top: 0.8em; margin-bottom: 0.8em;">📧 <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/knadh/listmonk/releases/tag/v3.0.0" style="text-decoration: none; color: #0099b4; font-weight: 600; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: #ddd; border-bottom-style: solid;">Listmonk 3.0</a> – Self hosted email newsletter system (<a target="_blank" href="https://listmonk.app/" style="text-decoration: none; color: #0099b4; font-weight: 600; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: #ddd; border-bottom-style: solid;">homepage</a>).</p> </li> <li style="color: #222; 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color: #0099b4;"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/vwqw1owlyc9qr3e3a0sa.jpg" alt="" width="640" style="border-top-color: #dddddd; border-top-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #dddddd; border-bottom-style: solid; outline: none; height: auto; text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%; line-height: 100%; width: 100%; border-top-width: 3px; border-right-width: 0; border-bottom-width: 3px; border-left-width: 0;"></a> </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="el-item item " ok style="border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 5px;"><tr><td style="font-family: -apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.48em; border-collapse: collapse; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px;"> <p class="desc" style="color: #222; margin-top: 0.8em; margin-bottom: 0;"><span style="font-weight: 600; font-size: 1.2em !important; color: #000;" class="mainlink"><a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/cel7t/TileEx" title="github.com" style="text-decoration: none; color: #0099b4; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; border-bottom-color: #ddd !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; font-size: 1.05em;">TileEx: A Tile Pattern Extractor</a></span> — A fun little Go project that can take in an image that contains a pattern and then extract the actual repeating tile element from it. Surprisingly little code, too.</p> <p class="name" style="color: #5a5a5a; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2em;">Sarthak Shah </p> </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><tr><td style="height: 16px; font-family: -apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.48em; border-collapse: collapse;"></td></tr></table> </div> </td></tr> </table>  </div> <div class="pager"> <div class="prev"> <a href="/issues/493">« Prev</a> </div> <div class="center">  </div> <div class="next"> <a href="/issues/495">Next »</a> </div> </div> <div class="subscribe_box" class=""> <form class="subscribe" action="/subscribe" method="POST"> <input type="email" placeholder="Want to subscribe? 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